Analysis
Estimated financial losses faced by UK farmers due dry weather impacts on key arable crops
Analysis that estimates the potential financial losses faced by UK farmers growing wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape …
Foods hit by extreme weather rising in price four times faster than others
Five product categories make up only 11% of the basket of food and drink used by the ONS to measure inflation. Yet they …
England cereals and oilseeds harvests ranked
A ranking of harvests since 1984 by overall volume for all wheat, spring and winter barley, oats and oilseed rape.…
The impact of climate change on British farms and farmers’ mental health
Anxiety is an almost universal experience among British farmers following the UK’s third worst harvest last year and ext…
Climate change impacts on food and migration
Analysis finds £3 billion worth of food, including rice, tea and mangos, comes from countries experiencing high levels o…
Climate impacts on cocoa
Average price per kilo of cocoa beans imported into the UK has risen 32% over the last three years.…
Distribution of funding across different land management schemes in England
Upland areas in England have so far received less than their promised share of new farming support, jeopardising climate…
UK International Climate Finance and Food Imports
UK joining forces with 60 other countries to help farmers directly responsible for producing staples like bananas, rice,…
France: climate impacts in focus
How has extreme weather impacted food, health and tourism?…
Spain: climate impacts in focus
What have been the impacts of extreme weather on food, health, and tourism?…
Climate and food: home and away
As UK harvests of key foods fail, ‘back-up’ imports wobble under climate-driven extremes, threatening our food security…
Winter flood warnings and alerts on grade 1 and 2 farmland in England
The number of flood warnings on England’s best farmland this winter hit a record high of over 1000, exceeding the previo…
Election poll: what do rural voters think about climate change and net zero?
We commissioned More in Common to poll 50 of the most ‘highly rural’ seats in Great Britain, with five from each English…
Estimated financial losses faced by UK farmers due to wet weather impacts on key arable crops
Arable farmers face losing nearly a billion in revenue as a result of the wet winter.…
Estimated decline in headline self- sufficiency for UK food production due to the projected reduction in arable crop output in 2024
Decline in output could reduce headline self-sufficiency across all UK farming sectors from 86% to 78%, when measured by…
Analysis of UK farm cropping plans and estimated impact of the wet winter on production
Analysis using Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) cropping forecasts to estimate the production volum…
El Niño, climate change, and UK food supply
We explore the UK food imports from around the world at risk as El Niño has been turbo-charging climate change impacts w…
Climate impacts on UK food imports
Spotlight on: climate-vulnerable countries